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Multivendor Marketplace For Zoho Commerce

Multivendor Marketplace For Zoho Commerce

Multivendor Marketplace For Zoho Commerce

Introducing Multivendor Marketplace for Zoho Commerce. The application is designed to empower store owners like you. It seamlessly converts your single-admin online store into a dynamic marketplace.

You can invite multiple sellers to showcase their products on your e-commerce marketplace. Our application seamlessly integrates with your existing Zoho Commerce store, ensuring a smooth transition.

You can expand your product offerings and attract a wider customer base, driving increased sales. 

 

Key Features of Multivendor Marketplace for Zoho Commerce:

Admin End:

 

  • Centralized Control: Complete oversight of your marketplace, managing sellers, their products, and orders from a single dashboard.
  • Seller Approval: Carefully curate your marketplace by approving or rejecting seller’s products.
  • Product Synchronization: Effortlessly sync products between your Zoho Commerce store and the marketplace, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
  • Seller Admin Management: Create seller admins. Also, grant and revoke access to seller admins, streamlining their operations.
  • Subscription Management: Offer flexible subscription plans to sellers, providing them with the tools and resources they need to succeed.
  • Transaction Oversight: Monitor and manage transactions, approving or disapproving them as needed.
  • Scalability: Easily accommodate growth by creating new seller accounts based on your subscription plans.

Seller End

 

  • Separate Control Panel: Provide sellers with a user-friendly interface to manage their products and orders.
  • Order Management: Allow sellers to track and update the status of their orders, ensuring timely fulfilment.
  • Product Listing: Empower sellers to add and customize their products, including variants and high-quality images.
  • Seller Admin Management: Enable sellers to delegate tasks to their admins for efficient operations.
  • Order Status: Give sellers the ability to mark orders as fulfilled once they’ve been shipped.

 

Prerequisite

Ensure you have an existing Zoho Commerce account to use Multivendor Marketplace for Zoho Commerce. Then only your application integrates with your Zoho Commerce account.

 

How to Setup Seller Admin on Multivendor Marketplace for Zoho Commerce?

Before jumping into the setup process of the multivendor marketplace for Zoho Commerce ensure you already have an existing Zoho Commerce account.

If you don’t have an existing account make a new account on Zoho Commerce. And, if you have an account sign up for the multivendor marketplace for Zoho Commerce. 

To create an account click here. Scroll down and click on the ‘Get This App’ button. 

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

Here on the signup page fill in your details and sign up for a new account.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

Now, on this page sign up for the application.

 zoho commerce connection

You can easily connect your Zoho Commerce account to the multivendor marketplace account by filling up these details. Let’s see how to find those details below:

  1. To find the Organization ID, go to your Zoho Commerce account > Click on Settings 

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

Under Store Settings, click on the Organization Profile.

zoho commerce dashboard

Open the organization Profile, copy the Organization ID from here and paste it into the Multivendor Marketplace for Zoho Commerce.

zoho commerce

  1. Enter your Store name.
  2. Simply put your Store URL in the Zoho Commerce Store URL.
  3. To enter the API URL, click the Zoho Commerce API URL link.  Here you will find all the data centres’ URLs, 

zoho commerce api url

After filling in all these details you can click on connect button. Now your Zoho Commerce account is to our application.

zoho commerce

A popup will open a new window in which you have to sign in again to your Zoho Commerce account.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

Accept the permission on the next popup window.

zoho commerce

Now we have completed the setup of seller admin on the multivendor marketplace for Zoho Commerce. 

Click on Choose a plan for the seller admin.

multivendor setup plan

Click on the next step to continue. You will get the seller admin plan. 

multivendor marketplace plan

 

How Can Admin Create Seller Plans?

You have completed the setup process of the seller admin.

Your Zoho Commerce platform has become a multivendor marketplace now you can create seller plans, and manage products and orders directly from your seller admin on your platform. 

To create seller plans go to Seller Plans.

multivendor seller plan

Click on the Add button, here you can create new seller plans.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

Under the ‘General Tab’, you can customize your plan. Create plan name, status, price and validity. After this, shift to ‘Condition Tab’.

multivendor setup generaltab

Under the Condition Tab, set the maximum product under the plan, commission and commission percentage. Click on the save button below to successfully launch your new plan.

zoho multivendo setup

Go to the settings tab, and under it click on connections.

 

zohomultivendor-setup-connection

Click on the register hook button. Your hook will be successfully registered.

Registering Webhook will enable the application to connect with Zoho Commerce. This helps in getting real-time order details from Zoho Commerce whenever an event is triggered.

Register hook on multivendor

 

Now, Go to setup instructions.

zoho multivendor setupinst

You will find the seller’s registration and login links here. With the help of these two links, you can invite multiple sellers to your online platform.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

Click on email configuration on the right sidebar and connect your multivendor account with your email.

In this way, you will get updated with the information about your store. Before starting setup read the guide to SMTP configuration to get a better idea.

zoho multivendor email config

Test mail received successfully.

testmail

Seller Account Registration and Activation

When the plans are successfully created you can send the registration invite link to the sellers. A seller can register himself through the invite link by filling up all the necessary details.

seller account registration

After registering himself on the platform, a seller has to wait until the admin approves his registration request. 

To approve the registration request and activate the seller account here are the following steps.

Go to the admin dashboard and click on ‘Seller Companies’

zoho multivendor seller companies

 

Here you will see the registration request sent by the seller. You can disable and activate a seller ID from here. This gives you complete control over the sellers.

zohomultivendor sellerregd activateseller

On clicking the action button, you will reach a page where you can update seller info.

seller update on zoho commerce

When the admin activates the seller’s account his login details will be sent automatically to the seller’s mail.

login info on mail

 

Now, the seller can access his eCommerce dashboard. On this page, the seller has to fill up his login details, then only he can access his eCommerce dashboard.

multivendor seller login

 This is the seller dashboard. Here seller can manage his products and orders.

multivendor marketplace seller account

Go to the seller admin on the right sidebar, here you can create a new seller account for another person.

This feature adds flexibility to your seller account. You can also update your seller profile info from this tab.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

Update your Seller profile information as per your needs.

Update seller info

Go to the seller under the seller admin tab.

zoho multivendor seller

Here you can update your seller company information like address, phone, email and more. Shift to the plan tab to see your activated plan on your account.

update seller company

Similarly, an admin can also update the seller profile on his admin account by clicking on seller admin under the user section.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

Here an admin can update the seller profile from his account.

update seller

Add Product on Multivendor Marketplace for Zoho Commerce

Our application makes adding a product to Zoho Commerce easy. The seller simply goes to the seller dashboard and clicks on the product.

zohomultivendor-products-section-1

You can add a new product page from here. Click on the add button to add a new product.

zoho multivendor addproduct

The above section shows different tabs like image, price and variant.

Here you can set the price in the ‘price tab’, an image in the ‘image tab’ and if you have a product variant you can simply add it in the ‘variant tab’.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce
If you have a product variant you can click on the variant tab to add new variants for your product and set the prices according to the product variant. Click save to add your products.

zohomultivendor create variant

You can see you have successfully added your product.

multivendor zoho commerce product added

 

You can also check if your product has been added to your Zoho Commerce platform. To check login to your Zoho Commerce account and under the Product section.

product added on zoho

 

Click on the product and scroll down to check if the variant of the product has been added. You can see the product and product variant information is successfully added to your Zoho Commerce account.

produt variant zoho

 

Workflow of Multivendor Marketplace for Zoho Commerce

Our application provides a smooth functioning and real-time data transfer. This ensures that the order details and the order status are in sync with both the admin account and the seller account. 

Let’s understand an order process. Go to the store website and select a product to ‘Add to Cart’.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

 

Go to the checkout page and click on the checkout button.

zohomultivendor checkout

 

Add your shipping details and click on the continue button.

zoho shipping details

 

Select your shipping method and continue.

zoho shipping method

 

Select your payment option and click on your make payment button.

makepayment on zoho commerce

 

After filling in your card details, pay your order.

zoho payment gateway

 

Now, you will redirected to a window. Here order ID will be shown.

zoho order id

 

Workflow of Admin and Seller Dashboards

A seller can check a new order on his seller dashboard by clicking on the order section.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

 

Here the seller can find the new order and check the order ID. For further details click on the order ID number.

orderid multivendor marketplace

 

You can see more details about the order and it also gives additional functionality to the seller to change the order status and write an order note.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

 

Our application enables you to see the information in real-time. It means whenever Order information is updated on the seller’s part, the admin can see it in real-time on his dashboard.

This will ensure a proper information exchange between the seller and the admin dashboard.

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

 

Now, you can notice in the above image that there is no change in the order status and shipping status on the admin account.

To update the status you have to open your Zoho Commerce account and under the order section. Select your order number to update its order and shipping status.

 

zoho commerce order section

Confirm the order status and shipping status on your Zoho Commerce.

 

confirm shipping on zoho commerce

Go to the Admin account check your order status and you will find the updated order status.

 

multivendor marketplace for zoho commerce

Same for your seller account, You will also find the updated order status.

zohomultivendor-as-orderdetails-sellerupdated-1

 

Support

  1. For any further queries or customizations, click on Create a Ticket.
  2. To know more about the product, Request a demo.

 

 

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